Maine Inside Out Juneteenth Performances + Community Dialogue

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Your voice matters. Come to reckon, reflect, and act together.

This Juneteenth, Maine Inside Out invites you into an open community dialogue about mass incarceration in the US, anchored by original theater, film, and the lived experience of Maine artists. Come to think, feel, and reckon together about what liberation looks like in our communities. At a moment when civic engagement is vital, these events are an opportunity for active participation. 

Doors 6:00pm Performance and dialogue 7:00pm 

Tickets available  (free or by donation!) 

This gathering centers your voice alongside the voices of Maine Inside Out’s newly formed 2026 Creative Ensemble, community artists who have developed original work this year drawn from lived experience of the criminal justice system. The evening includes a first showing of that work: an original piece by the ensemble, alongside the premiere of a short documentary film about the 2025 ensemble’s “Broken Clock” tour inside prisons, on college campuses, and in communities across Maine. The performance is a starting point, not the destination. This is a chance to be a room where the walls between audience and performer dissolve. What we’re really here for is each other - to think, feel, and reckon together about US mass incarceration and what liberation actually looks like in our communities. At a moment when so much is at stake - when the US incarcerates more people than any other nation, and when civic life demands more of all of us - these events are democracy in action. Honoring Juneteenth means honoring Black history and the ongoing, unfinished work of collective liberation. MIO believes that work happens in community, in rooms exactly like this one, when people are willing to show up and speak honestly together. With support from: Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations Androscoggin Bank Berman & Simmons KeyBank Lewiston Public Art Committee Little Chair Printing The Youth Justice Clinic and the Center for Youth Policy & Law at Maine Law This event is entirely supported by donations, sponsorship contributions, and grants. Contact us for sponsorship opportunities.